Word: barkeeper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play, which is full of life's nothingness, despair, and death, manufactures miserable versions of characters from mythology. It could succeed; its Bacchus as a barkeep who can't get drunk and a psychotic slattern who might be an uglified and twisted Aphrodite are curious figures, and a raid by a masked group led by Death always has dramatic potential...
Breslin has dropped his share of clinkers along the way, such as his Runyonesque columns about guys like Jerry the Booster, who distracts clerks by dropping his pants in department stores so his buddies can clean the racks of Hickey-Freeman 42-regulars, and about a barkeep named Mutchie, who sends notes to friends' funerals saying: "I am very sorry it had to come to this." But when Breslin graduated to writing his mood pieces about the day's biggest news events, from Selma to Saigon, he was often unbeatable. He has been called a male sob-sister...
...became chauffeur to a political organizer in Frank Lausche's gubernatorial campaign. After Lausche won, Stokes was offered a state job and chose to be a liquor inspector. He was a tough one. In his first case, a lone foray against an unlicensed saloon, the tough barkeep and customers laughed in his scrawny face (he then weighed only 150 Ibs.). Stokes pistol-whipped the bartender into submission. Later, in a shoot-out with some bootleggers, one of Stokes's colleagues was wounded while Stokes gunned down two men. Before long he had the second highest record of arrests...
Dino's 49th birthday party turned into quite a bash all right. Frank Sinatra, 50, and Manhattan Barkeep Jilly Rizzo were helping Singer Dean Martin celebrate in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel when an argument started with the fellow at the next table, Fred Weisman, 54, retired president of Hunt Foods and brother-in-law of Tycoon Norton Simon. As Frank first told it, Weisman beefed about the noise at Martin's table. "The guy was cursing me," said Sinatra, "and using four-letter words. I told him, 'I don't think...
...Progress," the barkeep gravely sayes, "The bigge ones had to come...